[T Minus Four]

Believe and/or disagree all you wish, but it's simply uncharitable to ascribe evil intentions to the bishops involved. It would be like saying, 20 years from now, if we ever discovered that playing card games somehow encouraged anti-social behavior, that all the bishops who reassigned priests who were obsessive card players, were involved in a massive "conspiracy to protect priests".

I'm sorry, but that is the lamest analogy I have ever heard.

[FourtySeven]

I agree it’s not a very good analogy but my intent was not to compare the gravity of the two situations. Rather it was to show how, at the time, it was unthinkable to believe that psychiatry could not cure pedophilia.

Clearly it was wrong to put so much faith in psychiatry. No one (at least not me) is saying the bishops didn’t make a huge mistake there.

The point is though, it was an honest mistake, with the best it intentions. It was not some evil conspiracy.